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Michael Chapman
Fingerstyle guitar picker Michael Chapman – born in Leeds, England on January
24, 1941 - came up through folk clubs in the 1960s, but his intricate,
atmospheric style was influenced more by jazz, flamenco, and blues masters. He
later becoming an unlikely cult hero to alternative US audiences thanks to the
admiration of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Growing up in the working-class
suburb of Hunslet in Leeds, Michael Chapman bought his first guitar at
15-years-old and was swept up by the skiffle craze of the mid-1950s before
developing his own unique technique, taking inspiration f...
